US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on Sept. 29 for "Condition monitoring of a continuous knife assembly of an agricultural harvester" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,697, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Condition monitoring of a continuous knife assembly of an agricultural harvester" was invented by Cory Hunt (Millersville, Pa.), Pieter Van Overschelde (Sint-Andries, Belgium) and Jethro Martin (Ephrata, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A header for an agricultural harvester including a continuous loop knife and a sensor for sensing conditions of a plurality of knives of the continuous loop knife in increments comprising non-adjacent groups of one or more knives, whereby substantially all of the plurality of knives is sensed after a plurality ...